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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Well thought out position on assassinating a country’s own citizens

Although
this was published about a month ago, I think Glenn Greenwald,
who wrote it, has Thoroughly covered the
insanity of letting a president assassinate his own citizens based on flimsy evidence
and plain old paranoia. -សតិវ អតុ

From the Guardian, UK;

The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to
target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far
from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly
that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice. In September 2011, it
killed US citizen Anwar
Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, along with US citizen Samir Khan, and then, in
circumstances that are still unexplained, two weeks later killed
Awlaki's 16-year-old American son Abdulrahman with a separate drone strike
in Yemen.
Since then, senior Obama officials including Attorney General Eric Holder
and John Brennan, Obama's top terrorism adviser and his current nominee to lead
the CIA, have explicitly argued that the president is and should be vested with
this power. Meanwhile, a Washington
Post article from October reported that the administration is formally
institutionalizing this president's power to decide who dies under the
Orwellian title "disposition matrix".
When the New York Times back in April, 2010 first
confirmed the existence of Obama's hit list, it made clear just what an
extremist power this is, noting: "It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an
American to be approved for targeted killing." The NYT quoted a Bush
intelligence official as saying "he did not know of any American who was
approved for targeted killing under the former president". When the
existence of Obama's hit list was first
reported several months earlier by the Washington Post's Dana Priest, she
wrote that the "list includes three Americans".
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